Truth

When did I stop
Keeping secrets
And start
telling Lies

Don't be offended

I think they're true
Or I did when I spoke
At least I wanted them to be
Now I'm not so sure

What is truth anyway?

If history is only lies
agreed upon
Why can't we write the present?
Write it, and in so doing,
Right it.




Blaise Pascal:

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart.

Brad Holland:

Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.

Demosthenes:

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

Galileo:

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

George Eliot:

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

George Eliot:

[I]t is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

Michael Friedlander:

There are many more wrong answers than right ones, and they are easier to find.

Plato:

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

History is made by stupid people.